Arabic Major Awarded 2026 Chester P. Middlesworth Award

Raahim Hashmi was awarded Duke University Libraries’ Chester P. Middlesworth Prize for his paper, “Seeing the Qur’an: Calligraphy, Power, and Transformation in the Mughal Empire". 

The Middlesworth Awards were established to encourage and recognize excellence of analysis, research and writing by Duke University undergraduate students in the use of primary sources and rare materials held by the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The Duke University Libraries will be recognizing the winners of the Libraries’ Writing and Research Awards with a reception during Family Weekend. This year’s event will be at 3:00pm on Friday, October 16th in the Edge Workshop Room (Bostock Library 127).